CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND FAMILIES: Proceedings of social policy forum 2000

Centre for Public Policy Evaluation, Issues Paper No. 10

Edited by

Stuart Birks

January 2001

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction         

Chapter One:       Fit for purpose - getting family law right

                           Steve Maharey ...................................................................................   1

Chapter Two:       Address to Social Policy Forum

                           Laila Harré ........................................................................................   8

Chapter Three:     Contested territory or common ground

                           Muriel Newman .................................................................................  12

Chapter Four:       The political economy of childhood

                           Ian Shirley.......................................................................................... 17

Chapter Five:       Creating a culture of caring about children

                           Sarah Farquhar and John Brickell ........................................................  26

Chapter Six:         Children and parental remarriage

                           Robin Fleming ....................................................................................  34

Chapter Seven:     Supporting a team approach in parenting: a new vision for parent support

                           Harald Breiding-Buss .........................................................................  42

Chapter Eight:      Shared parenting: Where from? Where to?

                           Mark Henaghan .................................................................................  50

Chapter Nine:       Children's rights to both parents - the state and the non-custodial parent

                           Stuart Birks .......................................................................................  57

Chapter Ten:        The Treaty and the rights of the child – the case study of Hepatitis B

                           John Waldon....................................................................................... 73

About the authors .........................................................................................................  84

 

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